Retrospective on the complete works of the artist colony member of the first hour: With Hans Christiansen (1866-1945) is an as versatile as exemplary Jugendstil artists to rediscover, who found his vocation in Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt.

Hans Christiansen is one of the most important representatives of Jugendstil, especially with his drafts in the field of arts and crafts. In Paris where matured into an artist, he was appointed in 1899 by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig in Darmstadt, where he was among the first seven members of the artists' colony. On the Mathildenhöhe he blossomed and excelled as a genuine work of art enthusiasts in painting, architecture and applied art as well as a designer of lights festivals. For the first time the full range of this versatile artist is presented: The retrospective presents his house on the Mathildenhöhe, room facilities, glass pane, jewellery, posters, paintings, drawings, textile art and ceramics in different spatial ensembles - including previously unknown like his fashion and poster designs from the 1920s.

The major retrospective, the first ever to Hans Christiansen, will be seen in four German institutions. The kick-off will make Mathildenhöhe as the first step, and then will follow the Bröhan Museum in Berlin, the Villa Stuck Museum in Munich and the Museumsberg in Flensburg, where the exhibition tour will end just before the 150th anniversary of the artist in his hometown.

An exhibition of the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Institute and of the Museumsberg in Flensburg in collaboration with the Villa Stuck Museum in Munich and the Bröhan Museum in Berlin.

The exhibition will then travel to the Musée Bröhan, Berlin (19 Feburary– 24 May 2015), the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich (18 June – 20 September 2015) and to the Museumsberg Flensburg (11 October – 17 January 2016)

Wien

Wally Neuzil - Her Life with Egon SchieleDates:27.2.2015-1.6.2015

The painting “Wally”, housed by the Vienna Leopold Museum, is among the most well-known works by Egon Schiele. The upcoming exhibition at the Leopold Museum seeks to uncover the person behind the portrait, Walburga “Wally” Neuzil (1894-1917), approaching her through artworks, autographs, photographs and documents. Featured in the presentation will be eminent paintings by Schiele, such as “Death and the Maiden”, an important loan from the Belvedere, as well as drawings and watercolors by Schiele for which Wally acted as a model. The exhibition comprises works from the Leopold Museum, the Leopold Private Collection as well as loans from Austrian and international collections.

The exhibition examines the stages of Wally’s life, her professions, from model to nurse, and tells the tale of a woman’s fate in fin-de-siècle Vienna, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment, between a life without taboos and profound humanity.

Boston

Vienna 1900: Seceding from the World of SecurityDates:4.3.2015-4.3.2015

In the years around 1900, Vienna was the political, social, and cultural center of the largest continental European empire in modern history, and one of the birthplaces of European modernism. See how the Viennese environment attracted poor and wealthy alike into a culture that shaped modern European history.

Five-session course tickets ($120 member, $150 nonmember) are not available online. To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.

Darren McLean from Timber & Lime Conservation, will discuss restoration and repair to mosaic floors. The lecture will give a brief overview of mosaics and their Victorian resurgence with some examples of the materials used and the people who made them.

Niall Murphy’s lecture, Why Architectural Ornament Matters, in essence, is a primer about Ornament and the key role architectural ornament plays in creating good, conducive and healthy urban environments. Why are people attracted to ornament on buildings? Does it fulfil a need? Is the need to ornament our environment actually an intrinsic part of what makes us human?

Expressionisms - The Collection from Kokoschka to AnzingerDates:7.3.2015-21.6.2015

Based on the impressions gained during her first examination of the museum holdings, the new curator for modern art, Beatrice von Bormann, has devised an exhibition about Expressionism. It features paintings, sculptures, drawings, and graphic prints by about eighty artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The focus is on Austrian and German Expressionism, from the early period before World War I to the Neo‑Expressionism of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Neuen Wilden.

Gustav Klimt’s golden and Symbolist works solidified his legacy within the Vienna Secession movement. Explore how he captured the zeitgeist of fin-de-siècle Vienna through his society portraits, vivid landscapes, and romantic allegorical paintings.

Five-session course tickets ($120 member, $150 nonmember) are not available online. To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.

Klimt’s Austrian patrons often commissioned homes as avant-garde as the paintings they housed. Josef Hoffmann, a leader in Viennese architecture and design, created extraordinary homes for his discerning clientele. Discover Hoffmann’s artful interiors and the bold designs of Vienna’s Workshops.

Five-session course tickets ($120 member, $150 nonmember) are not available online. To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.

The Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as a network of cities aiming to preserve, study and promote Art Nouveau at a European scale, organizes the final symposium of its European project Art Nouveau & Ecology supported by the Culture programme 2007-2013 of the European Commission.

This one-day symposium Art Nouveau in Europe: visions and revisions will take place on 20 March 2015 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana.

Three international keynote speakers will talk on the past, present and future of Art Nouveau.
They will then exchange experience, knowledge and visions with Art Nouveau experts and professionals from the Network as well as with the audience during a round table.

The morning session will be followed by the presentation of results of the European project Art Nouveau & Ecology and the future challenges of the Network.
To conclude the final event, Penelope Denu, official representative of the European Institute of Cultural Routes, will officially award the RANN with the certification of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.